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“To fear love is to fear life, and
those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“The time
you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
- Russell
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“The fundamental cause of the trouble
is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are
full of doubt.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Of all forms of caution, caution in
love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“There are two motives for reading a
book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Do not fear to be eccentric in
opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“War does not determine who is right -
only who is left.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Men
are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“In all affairs it's a healthy thing
now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for
granted.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“It's easy to fall in love. The hard
part is finding someone to catch you.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“Most people would sooner die than
think; in fact, they do so.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Science is what you know, philosophy
is what you don't know”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“Our great democracies still tend to
think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“What is wanted is not the will to
believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“There is much pleasure to be gained
from useless knowledge.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“The good life is inspired by love and
guided by knowledge”
- Bertrand Russell, |
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“Fear is the main source of
superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the
beginning of wisdom.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Your writing is never as good as you
hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“The hardest thing to learn in life
is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Dogmatism is the greatest of mental
obstacles to human happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching
nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Is there any knowledge in the world
which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“It has been said that man is a
rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could
support this.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Life is nothing but a competition to
be the criminal rather than the victim.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“No one gossips about other people’s
secret virtues.”
- Bertrand Russell, |
“Mathematics rightly viewed possesses
not only truth but supreme beauty.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“Really high-minded people are
indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.”
- Bertrand Russell, |
“Men who are unhappy, like men who
sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“So far as I can remember there is
not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Science may set limits to
knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“Patriots always talk of dying for
their country but never of killing for their country.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“How much longer is the world willing
to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“Not to be absolutely certain is, I
think, one of the essential things in rationality.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“One of the most powerful of all our
passions is the desire to be admired and respected.”
- Bertrand Russell, |
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“The secret of happiness is to face
the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Patriotism is the willingness to kill and
be killed for trivial reasons”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“To be without some of the things you
want is an indispensable part of happiness.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Few people can be happy unless they
hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
- Bertrand Russell |
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“The greatest challenge to any
thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.”
- Bertrand Russell |
“Freedom of opinion can only exist
when the government thinks itself secure.”
- Bertrand Russell |
